1. Cited in James Hunter, The Making of the Crofting Community (Edinburgh, 1976 and new edn 2000), p. 89; D. G. Macrae, Review of M. Gray, The Highland Economy, Economica, new series, vol. 25 (1958), p. 141.
2. Cited in Eric Richards, A History of the Highland Clearances (Edinburgh, 1985), vol. 2, p. 295.
3. G. C. Lewis, On Local Disturbances in Ireland and on the Irish Church Question (London, 1836), p. 124.
4. Cited in I. M. M. Macphail, The Crofters’ War (Stornoway, 1989), p. 120.
5. Samuel (Sorley) MacLean, ‘The Poetry of the Highland Clearances’, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, vol. 38 (1937–41), pp. 296–300.
6. Ibid.
7. E. P. Thompson, ‘English Trade Unionism and Other Labour Movements before 1790’, Society for the Study of Labour History, Bulletin 17 (1968), p. 20.
8. Allan I. Macinnes, ‘Scottish Gaeldom: The First Phase of Clearance’, in T. M. Devine and Rosalind Mitchison, eds., People and Society in Scotland, vol. I: 1760–1830 (Edinburgh, reprinted 1991), p. 72.
9. PP, 1884, vol. XXXII, Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, p. 36.
10. MacLean, ‘Poetry of the Highland Clearances’, pp. 296–7.
11. Donald E. Meek, Tuath is Tighearna (Edinburgh, 1995), p. 18.
12. E. R. Wolf, ‘On Peasant Rebellions’, in T. Shanin, ed., Peasants and Peasant Societies (London, 1971), p. 268.
13. R. J. Adam, ed., Papers on Sutherland Estate Management (Edinburgh, 1972), Patrick Sellar to James Loch, 7 May 1816.
14. Ibid.
15. Wolf, ‘On Peasant Rebellions’, p. 268.
16. PP, VI, 1841, Select Committee on Emigration (Scotland), p. 80.
17. Eric Richards, Debating the Highland Clearances (Edinburgh, 2007), pp. 70–71.
18. NAS, Justiciary Court Records, JC26/808 Judicial declaration of Catherine McLachlan, 9 August 1868.
19. Richards, Debating, p. 71.
20. Cited in T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation (London, 2012), p. 165.
21. Quoted in Charles Withers, ‘ “Give us land and plenty of it”: The Ideological Basis to Land and Landscape in the Scottish Highlands’, Landscape History (1990), 12, pp. 45–54.
22. Cited in Richards, History of the Highland Clearances, vol. 2, p. 181.
23. Cited in Withers, ‘ “Give us land” ’, p. 52.
24. PP, VIII (1953–4), Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Crofting Conditions, pp. 35–6.
25. Quoted in V. E. Durkacz, The Decline of the Celtic Languages (Edinburgh, 1983), p. 99.
26. Quoted in A. Auld, Ministers and Men in the Far North (Wick, 1868), p. 54.